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44 Primary Health Branch policy and funding guidelines––2006–07 to 2008–09 (2008–09 update) Acronym/term Organisational development activities Outcome Participation PASA Performance indicator Performance measurement Person-centred PHCCOS PHFA Physiotherapy Population health Population-based interventions PPPS Prevention Description Activities that aim to strengthen the organisation’s capacity to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community. It should assist organisations to respond to change, strategically plan and allocate resources, and foster strong leadership at all levels of the organisation. It includes an understanding that board of management members, consumers and members of the community should be included as vital members of the organisation. A measurable change in the health of an individual, or group of people or population, which is attributable to an intervention or series of interventions. Occurs when consumers, carers and community members are meaningfully involved in decision making about health policy and planning, care and treatment, and the wellbeing of themselves and the community. It is about having your say, thinking about why you believe in your view, and listening to the views and ideas of others. In working together decisions may include a range of perspectives. Note that the term ‘participation’ is used here to encompass consumer, carer and community participation, unless otherwise specified. Program and Service Adviser A statistic or other unit of information that reflects, directly or indirectly, the extent to which an anticipated outcome is achieved or the quality of the process leading to that outcome. A strategy that enables an organisation to systematically assess progress against defined goals and objectives. It measures how well current strategies, plans and processes are working and provides information to aid decision making and shape future action. Delivery of health care configured around the needs of the person. Primary Health Carer Consumer Opinion Survey Primary Health Funding Approach The assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of human movement, including population/public health approaches to targeted population groups, with a special emphasis on the neurological, musculo-skeletal and cardiovascular systems––all performed by a suitable qualified person. Population health is the health of groups, families and communities. Populations may be defined by locality, biological criteria (age or gender), social criteria (socioeconomic status) or cultural criteria (ethnicity). Interventions targeted to populations, rather than individuals. These interventions include whole population activities as well as activities deliberately targeted to population sub-groups, such as rural or Indigenous people. Practices, Processes, Protocols and Systems There are three types of prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Primary prevention is an active assertive process of creating conditions and or personal attributes that promote the wellbeing of people. Secondary prevention is early detection and intervention to keep initial problems from becoming more severe. Tertiary prevention is the effort to rehabilitate those affected with severe disorders and return them to the community.
Primary Health Branch policy and funding guidelines––2006–07 to 2008–09 (2008–09 update) 45 Acronym/term Primary health care/ primary care Primary Care Partnership (PCP) PCP Strategy Podiatry Public health framework Quality Improvement Council (QIC) Quality Improvement and Community Services Accreditation (QICSA) Referral Refugee RDHM Description The terms ‘primary health care’ and ‘primary care’ are sometimes used interchangeably in the literature, however, primary care is commonly associated with primary medical care. Primary medical care is a term used to specify the role of general practice within the primary care system. Other primary care providers include community health nurses, Aboriginal health workers, and allied health practitioners. (Specialist care, or tertiary services, may be provided by accident and emergency services, hospital wards, youth health or mental health services.) The broader term of primary health care is commonly used to describe the first level of the health system from sick care to the development of health, seeking to protect and promote the health of defined communities and to address individual and population health problems at an early stage. A group of primary care providers that have formed voluntary alliances to work together to improve health and wellbeing in their local communities. Primary Care Partnerships Strategy. A strategy that aims to enable primary care services to achieve positive outcomes for consumers and deliver improved health and wellbeing for the community. This strategy provides a framework for improving the planning and delivery of primary care services and for ensuring they work effectively together. The diagnosis and treatment of ailments or abnormal conditions of the human foot, including population/public health nutrition approach to targeted population groups––all performed by a suitably qualified person. ‘Public health’ describes those activities that aim to benefit a population rather than individuals. Prevention, protection and promotion are emphasised, as distinct from treatment tailored to the needs of individuals with symptoms. A public health approach is structured around the continuum of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. QIC is a national primary health industry body that produces standards for primary health care and associated services. The QIC Review and Accreditation Program is based on the QIC standards, but has the capacity to use service delivery standards developed by other industries provided they meet particular criteria. These criteria include consistency with QIC’s Core Concepts, which are based on the social model of health. QICSA provides accreditation services in Victoria under licence from the Quality Improvement Council (QIC). The transmission (physically or by other means) of personal and/or health information relating to an individual from one service provider(s) to another service provider(s) with the individual’s consent and for the purpose of care or treatment. According to the United Nations Convention (1951) and Protocol (1967) relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is defined as any person who: ‘…owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.’ Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne
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